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A way forward

12 July 2011 / Allison Plager
Issue: 4312 / Categories: Comment & Analysis , Business , Income Tax
The future for small business taxation was the theme of a LexisNexis roundtable. ALLISON PLAGER reports

KEY POINTS

  • Problems with the current tax system.
  • Desire to retain the contributory principle.
  • Tax the activity rather than the entity.
  • Recognise the risk taken by the self employed.
  • Cost of change.

If there is one thing you can be sure of it is that when you get of a group of 11 tax experts around a table you will not get a consensus of opinion although you might get broad agreement in relation to some aspects.

LexisNexis recently held a round table to discuss micro-business and individual taxation. It was generally agreed that the current status was not working but opinions ranged over what the problems were and how to tackle them.

A resume of some of the...

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